Stay," suddenly; "methinks--" She uprose from her chair and went to the oaken wardrobe, and threw the door of it open wide while she looked within.
"There is a gown and tippet or so here, and a hood and some ribands I might do without," she said.

"My woman shall bear them to your chamber, and show you how to set them to rights.

She is a nimble-fingered creature, and a gown of mine would give almost stuff enough to make you two.

Then some days, when I am not going abroad and Mistress Margery frets me too much, I will send for you to sit with me, and you shall listen to the gossip when a visitor drops in to have a dish of tea." Anne would have kissed her feet then, if she had dared to do so.

She blushed red all over, and adored her with a more worshipping gaze than before.
"I should not have dared to hope so much," she stammered.